Author

Earlier in the fall I asked my author and blogger friends to tell me the titles of some of their favorite books so I could pass them on in blog posts. My last two gift suggestion blog posts included books for children as well as a few that worked well for all ages. Today I’m focusing on good reads for the young adult group.

Sci fi/space opera author and blogger extraordinaire Alex J. Cavanaugh (more about Alex’s books in a future post) says he doesn’t usually read a lot of YA novels but really enjoyed Broken Branch Fallsby Tara Tyler. Listed as good for middle grades and all ages, this book features an “average fifteen-year-old goblin.”

Gary Raham, previously mentioned in the post for kids’ reads, also suggests War Bonds by Beverly Jones, “a beautiful YA book about a girl growing up in Colorado during WWII. It won the Colorado Authors’ League award in YA fiction this past year.

From my own reading, I’d like to add Mosquitoland by David Arnold. This story has a lot of my favorite elements: a young female main character, a journey to reach a big goal, and several quirky characters and oddball adventures along the way.

This will amuse you – I never wanted to be an author. True story! I wrote some when I was younger, but it was never my goal. I had other passions in my life. But I found that old manuscript in a drawer and decided to rewrite it. Then my wife pushed me to submit …Read More

Thought I’d poke my head out for a minute to see how things are going. Looks like the A to Z April Challenge is going well. I try to keep tabs on a a couple of regulars like Alex J. Cavanaugh and April J. Moore and then wander through the rest of the list, picking …Read More

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. Read More…